Ahmad was sounding a little low about sanctimonious politicians and
about doctors who depart form dealing with patients to run or manage
orgs.
It is not quite so bad nor are we quite so uninfluential.
Sanctimonious by all means, but sensitive to public opinion.
And our power as clinicians revolves around that quiet word after
the consultation, when we give individual citizens advice on what
they should call for their political representatives to do in order
to assure them that we will be enabled to provide them with the care
they (may) need or want.
So, one principle to stand firm on, and one which the current Gov
have issued an edict confirming, is that no restriction on what
doctors may say to patients, regardless of the effect on the org for
which they work, may be tolerated.
Doctors who go out of touch with patients as well as losing their
close appreciation of whatever it is that makes it worth having
doctors in management also lose their influence on the patients.
Self correcting, to a degree<g>
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